Now that's strutting your stuff

[Jasonden]

Check out the Japanese H-2A rocket launching the X-ray observatory.  Very nice strut job that they have going on holding the solids!

[Columbia]

And the core stage seems to be a Jumbo-64 or something..

[Choctofliatrio2.0]

1 minute ago, Jasonden said:

Check out the Japanese H-2A rocket launching the X-ray observatory.  Very nice strut job that they have going on holding the solids!

They must've tested their rocket in KSP

[Clockwork13]

You can even see Mun in the background.

[Tabris]

are they using a Skipper or a Mainsail?

[Kerbart]

Looks like a skipper to me.

I strut my boosters the same way. Glad I'm doing something right.

 

[Jetski]

Clearly a Skipper on the bottom

[AbacusWizard]

Launch towers? They must be still playing version 0.18.

[Choctofliatrio2.0]

Those SRBs are an odd size... too small to be 2.5m but not 1.25m...

Anyhow, they must be using a beast of a computer, since that looks incredibly realistic!

[Temeter]

It's like a KSP variant of the Ariane 5. Props for cryo mod tho!

[FungusForge]

4 minutes ago, Choctofliatrio2.0 said:

Those SRBs are an odd size... too small to be 2.5m but not 1.25m...

Anyhow, they must be using a beast of a computer, since that looks incredibly realistic!

1.875m?

[Kerbart]

1 minute ago, FungusForge said:

1.875m?

Are the Japanese tax payers aware that their space agency is spending their hard earned money on those mods that use parts with in-between sizes?

[Choctofliatrio2.0]

41 minutes ago, Kerbart said:

Are the Japanese tax payers aware that their space agency is spending their hard earned money on those mods that use parts with in-between sizes?

That's disappointing of JAXA. NASA uses all-American, all stock parts, as it should be.

[Kerbart]

3 minutes ago, Choctofliatrio2.0 said:

That's disappointing of JAXA. NASA uses all-American, all stock parts, as it should be.

That's what you claim. I say that they rely heavily on the FASA mod, especially for their early launches.

[Tfin]

44 minutes ago, Kerbart said:

Are the Japanese tax payers aware that their space agency is spending their hard earned money on those mods that use parts with in-between sizes?

Procedural SRBs, certainly. They look like 1.5m parts, comparing them in paint.net.

Six struts per booster seems a bit much though. I wouldn't have used more than three, if that.

[Kerbart]

1 minute ago, Tfin said:

Procedural SRBs, certainly. They look like 1.5m parts, comparing them in paint.net.

Six struts per booster seems a bit much though. I wouldn't have used more than three, if that.

I don't use the top once as i have the radial decoupler there. But I do have one horizontal strut at the bottom to neutralize the torque (as the radial decoupler is not aligned with the force vector from the engine), and the diagonal strut to transfer the thrust from the booster to the hard point on the main stage.